George Boeree | Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Introducing myself…
- Autor: George Boeree (“cgboeree”)
- Tema: Re: [LinguaFrancaNova] Introducing myself…
- Data: 2002-11-25 12:56
- Mesaje: 404 (a supra, presedente, seguente)
Hello H¿ctor!
I am so glad to meet you! First, thank you from me personally for your
nice comments about my web pages. But even more thanks for volunteering
to do some translating! I just started looking through the Spanish word
list, working with a dictionary. As you can imagine, this is a lot of
work for someone who is not competent in your language (and yes, I
actually do have a job -- as well as a wife and three daughters who
sometimes like to see me!). If I had been a little smarter, I would
have kept lists of the research I did back when I used the romance
languages as the basis for LFN -- but I did not think ahead.
I do not wish to take advantage of your generosity, so I would
understand completely if you change your mind.
Welcome to the group! We are all, I suspect, fellow "language freaks."
George Boeree
hgparedess wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> I would like to offer myself to help in the translation into Spanish
> of the vocabulary of LNF/EP. My mother tongue is Spanish, and I am
> very interested in the topics of IALs.
>
> For many months, (about three years by now), I've been reading and
> studying all I could find in the net about international auxiliary
> languages, and also about the (not so easy) relation between
> orthography and sound in the case of English.
>
> (The reformation of English's orthography is a "good and noble" goal
> in my mind, because it is the main obstacle for English to become a
> more accessible tool for international communication, and the
> principal cause of suffering for us learners of E. as a second
> language, not to mention all those native "not-so-
> good-spelling-bees", crashed in the windshields of illiteracy).
>
> To the cynical, all this would indicate that I tend to gravitate
> toward lost causes, but it is mostly for the intelectual joy of
> observing minds at work, and not for its practical "secondary
> effect", that I started to search for all this.
>
> I have enjoyed the frequent flashes of intelligence and insight that
> the participants in the bulletin boards, and creators of the sites
> I've visited display before their readers, and deplored the weird,
> emotional and some times, plainly irrational blurbs of "fanatical
> promoters of their pet projects".
>
> So, I have become familiar with the great works and ideas of Jay
> Bowks, James Chandler, Kevin B. Smith, Paul O. Bartlett and others
> like them, and in this process, I've found about Interlingua,
> Romanova, Occidental, Ido, Folkspraak, Loglan/Lojban, Glosa, Tasu,
> etc., and also about the strange, beautiful and funny florations of
> fictional languages and, yes, even about Esperanto. (This one I can
> read and understand, although not so much write, and I've been
> listening to Radio Polonia's transmissions once or twice a week for
> about a year by now).
>
> I guess all this make me a language freak without any hope of
> rehabilitation.
>
> I have no strong preference for any IAL, finding them all, more or
> less adequate for basic communication, but I tend to prefer
> regularity and simplicity as the "reasons-to-be" of such creations,
> with beauty a close third. For me, all of them are examples of the
> creativity of the human mind, with strong points and weak ones, like
> any tools we can use in other realms of our lives.
>
> During those months I used to visit the homepage of Dr. Boeree, to
> see if something new appeared, because I liked the sounds and feeling
> of his creation a lot. I comforted myself from the frustration of not
> finding something new by reading his writings about psychology and
> Buddhism.
>
> So with great joy I have found this group.
>
> I have taken my time to read all the messages so far, because I found
> the group's name slightly misleading, and wanted to be sure of its
> direction.
>
> I better finish here, but not without warmly thanking Bjorn Madsen
> for starting this group.
>
> Sincerely
>
> H¿ctor G. Paredes Sitten.
>
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